The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-06
THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL
DAIRYING AND STOCK RAISING.
Address Delivered Before the Dairy
mems Convention, Jackson, Miss,
by Hon. L. S. Coffin, Fort Dodge,
Iowa.

4UWds
From the Racine, Wisconsin, Agrieultur-
ist.
am weighing well my words when
say that never since the stars and stripes
waved over this free land, has there been
a time auy more favorable for honest
manly toll, and self-denyiDg economy to
reap its proper reward than now. can
not take your time here to go into de-
tail to show this particular point.
Enough for my purpose, at present to
saw. have been there, and know where
of speak. Could | start to-day as L did
33 years ago, out on that then, wild
prairie. with the present advantages
Young man now has, the odds would at
least be ten to one more in my favor now
than then.
Now, while it may be true in certain
sense that some few comparatively OF
the rich are growing richer, the poor
are not growing poorer, because OF this
fact. While i would not, for my right
hand, saw one word that could be tor
tured to give possible semblance OF a
shadow of meaning against labor, or
against any organization for its real up
lifting. for / stand here before you, as
laboring man, and as true knight as
ever threw a lance, true to all Its leglt-
innate demands, yet | am compelled to
saw that labor is to-day wounded in the
house of it's friends, or its pretended
friends. =.
Outside of some of our great clties'
where thousands of sewing women are
cheated out OF their fair anu reasonable
earning, by heartless tradesmen, both
Jew and American, there is but very
little reason or grounds for complaint,
because of insufficient pay. wages
throughout the length and breadth OF
this land to-day are at least % per cent.
higher than when | worked out by the
month to get my start; and beside
everything a man has to buy to day for
family use is at least as much cheaper
as wages are higher now than then.
Why. then some Of my laboring
brothers will ask, all this commotion,
why these great strikes? All! | admit
Won have asked me hard question.
Hard; not so much, because obscure
and difficult to define, but because 1t re-
ouires more courage than timid man
ike me usually has to answer 1t square
lv and honestly. But if you will al
low me to answer it by asking another, L
will: -,
Will YOU tell me the amount OF the
enormous sums of money thaG laborlng
men pay over the counters OF the saloon
in this nation9 Will yOu tgure up the
dollars and cents they yearly pay Tor
tobacco? Will you tell me how many
homes these two sums would puy Ior
working men? No! no! no! 1t Is not
so much the expressions OF the rich. 1t
| is not so much the burdens OF monopo-
lies. No! it is not SO much the grind
| ING down of soulless corporations that
rob labor of its rewards. 1t is the curse
of the saloon. 1t is the merciless work
ing of the law, "As we SOW so shall we
also reap 1t is the terrible burdens OF
our own habits, that ROB our wives ana
| children of bread and clothes and home
| We sow to the wind, and we reap the
whirlwind. Taking advantage OF the
| desneration of the man whose conscience
il laundering at his heart because OF hii
| bah;ts that waste his hard earned wages
which should be saved for home, FOL
wife and children, the demagogue ane
Communist come to him, and with plaus
ihle words and hellish intent make him
believe that he is oppressed by capital
and he should resist even to murder
arsor, and riot. Hundreds and thou
sands of laboring men march through
the streets of our large cities with ban
ners asking for redress from the oppres
sion of capital, and at the same TIM
don't know what it is that Is hurting
them.
There is foul spirit in the al
leverywhere, and there never was tim
when plain talk was more demanded
than now. Things must be called o.
their right names, and must be laid
the proper doors.
It NAV not be popular to say thes
| thines. but a true knight OF labor,
true patriot, q true lover of this rae
cannot saw less. That statesman VIII
will arise in his place in the halls OF ou
National Congress, and propose som
effective law that shall eliminate tn
foul demon, Rum, frem the politics an.
the economy of this nation, anu II!
from the back of labor the burdens
imposes will be greater than wash
lington. pray God the time may 500
come when such statesman shall
evolved by the very emergencies an
dangers that now are so imminent, an
TO Bis voice and leading every goo
: man and woman in the land will TO
! low.
Let every self respecting young ma
. | who has health, q clear head ana
5 strong right arm, scout the idea that tn
$ avenues to honorable competency, an
, even wealth, are closed to him to such
r degree that patient, persevering iabt
! combined with temperance, chastity an
' proper economy with honesty, will M
: bring to him their old time and accu
toned reward. That in order to su
? ceed he muse cringe and crawl and o
|. seouiously wait for something to tnl
. Inn. or until some influential friend sha
give him . clerkship which is often on
another name for imprisonment, or sia
cry for life.
: But am betrayed into wanderiI
: from the text Of my paper, VIZ: IT
e secret of our success"
Ie guess you have it aow; it is simp
n this, We 90 and do it ourselves.
> As rule, every farmer in the Mort
z the successful farmer on our innumeI
9 ]. BILE small farms, knoFs how to do wi
= = his own hands every kind of work nee
4 ed to be done on his farm. Not on
i does he know hoF 70 do it, but he do
:. i it, and he loves the work.
n a young man up North, who has
i. own row 70 hoe, who has 10 start wi
only his hands, commences life
hiring out for . few years to . farm
e hand. He and the farmer NO
n side By side, - equal together ~